First Round of Cataclysm Hotfixes Now Live!

Blizzard have just released yet another (huge) batch of hotfixes for patch 4.0.3a, addressing post-Cataclysm release bugs. Many specific quest issues were addressed with this patch, so if you were experiencing any problems check to see if it's been resolved! Not too many major changes, though if you were wasting time killing the opposing faction's flight trainer instead of bothering to experience new content, Blizzard has made it a bit tougher for you.

Check out a detailed list of hotfixes after the break!

General

It is no longer possible for an ill-mannered person of the opposing faction to one-shot a flight trainer in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, which in turn made the 500 players standing on top of the flight trainer with their mammoths really sad.

Fallen Hero's Spirits in Icecrown can no longer have their pockets picked.

Ray'ma and Brew Vendor Brew of the Month Club vendors are now spawning properly.

The achievement “Stood in the fire” is granted when standing in a zone boundary different than Deathwing's spawn location. In addition, players can now get this achievement by walking into the wake of Deathwing's fire after he has passed.

If faction mounts do not translate to a mount of the opposite faction when performing a paid faction change, they will now be removed.

Players are no longer able to endlessly kite the outdoor Battlemasters.

Several combat issues involving mind control mechanics have been fixed.

Battlegrounds

NPCs and vehicles now have the correct Cataclysm values for health and damage in the 80-84 and 85 Strand of the Ancients, Isle of Conquest, and Alterac Valley level brackets.

Some players were unable to enter 10- vs. 10-player Battlegrounds when the option to enter became available. This has been corrected.

Classes

Priests

Low-level priests will now properly take Shadow Word: Death backlash damage when casting Shadow Word: Death.

Shaman

Lightning Shield again properly deals damage while the shaman is casting other spells.

Dungeons & Raids

The Mana Burn ability that is cast when Arcane Aberrations die in Dire Maul has been replaced with an Arcane Explosion ability that does not drain mana.

Al'akir's Lightning Cloud now despawns when the encounter is defeated in Throne of the Four Winds.

Players are no longer able to use Killing Spree on Ozumat in Throne of the Tides. The message "Invalid Target" is displayed.

Players are no longer placed oddly when affected by Ulthok's Squeeze in Throne of the Tides.

Temple Guardian Anhuur in Halls of Origination will now lose Shield of Light at the appropriate times. He was cheating.

Millhouse Manastorm in The Stonecore will not stay linked to trash packs he is no longer stationed at after a group wipe.

Razorgore and Chromaggus in Blackwing Lair will no longer cause an infinite loop of encounter mind control mechanics when pets or companions are present.

Items

Tattooed Eyeball should not be epic quality and is now superior.

Wailing Weeds no longer give experience, have any drops, or are able to be gathered in Mount Hyjal.

Items which have refund options available no longer have their expiration cooldown recorded incorrectly when more than one is purchased within a short amount of time.

An issue which prevented players from rolling Need on certain relics found in dungeons has been corrected.

Helm of the Thousand Needles now has 12 Strength and 17 Stamina in addition to the 12 Hit Rating it had before.

Spider's Silk now drops from most all spiders in the level range of 16-25.

Stag Flanks now drop from level-appropriate stags.

Big Mouth Clams and the Black Pearls they sometimes contain again drop off of many creatures.

Corpse Dust and Infernal Stones are no longer available from vendors.

The stats for the one-handed mace Shatterscale Mightfish have been corrected.

Rogues are now able to equip and use Morningstar of the Order. However, the tooltip for the item still shows Main Hand in red, and right clicking on the item when it is equipped returns the message "You do not have the required proficiency for that item." This display issue will be corrected in a future patch.

Passengers are now force ejected from multi-passenger mounts that have been converted into a Reindeer or Brewfest Kodo. This works for both NPCs and PCs.

Professions

There is no longer a School of Fish in Elwynn Forest that like to think of themselves as in "testing," nor do they yield Peacebloom when fished. This School of Fish is no longer a part of the counterculture and will no longer give you flowers when fished.

Recipe: Feathered Lure is no longer on the vendor list for the Cooking reward vendors, as it's returning an error "The Spell is not available to you" when players attempt to learn it.

Forsaken Sailors were dealing too much damage to those questing in Gilneas. Their damage output has been reduced.

If a player completes the objectives of "Bad Medicine" outside of Northern Stranglethorn, then the quest "Just Hatched" will not auto-launch, but Corporal Sethman will have the quest available when the player turns in the quest "Bad Medicine" to Brother Nimetz. If the player completes "Bad Medicine" within Northern Stranglethorn, then "Just Hatched" is auto-launched.

Quest givers in The Exodar, Teldrassil and Dun Morogh are all now offering the level 50 mage quest "Meet with Maginor Dumas" leading players to Stormwind.

The deprecated quests "Foreboding Plans" and "Encrypted Letter" are no longer being offered to players by the Syndicate Documents in Hillsbrad Foothills.

The deprecated quests "Looking Further" and "Morganth" are no longer being offered by the Old Lion Statue in Redridge Mountains.

The cutscene for "Lordaeron" in Silverpine Forest will now properly play if the player is mounted when starting the quest.

High Priest Venoxis should spawn properly during the "High Priest Venoxis" quest event in The Cape of Stranglethorn.

The quest "The Holy Water of Clarity" will be offered regardless of the order in which the player completes the prerequisite quests in The Cape of Stranglethorn.

The NPCs of Bloodgulch no longer disappear when players skip the cutscene during the quest "Eye Spy" in Twilight Highlands.

Kalimdor

60 completed quests in Winterspring are now required in order to earn the Winterspring Quests achievement.

Players should no longer experience issues completing the quest "The Reason Why" when attempting to interact with the various Moonstones in Ashenvale.

Players are no longer able to attack other players while in Diemetradon form during the quest "Ever Watching From Above" in Un'Goro Crater.

It is no longer possible to pick up the deprecated quest "The Gordunni Scroll" in Feralas.

The deprecated quest "Hunting in Stranglethorn" is no longer being offered by Roon Wildmane in Desolace.

Questgiver Melizza Brimbuzzle in Desolace now respawns at a much more reasonable rate after dying.

Jinky Twizzlefixxit now provides players with a replacement River Boat quest reward via her gossip text if a player deletes it while in Thousand Needles.

Comments

Comment by Hawtsauce

The shear number of hours players spent killing spiders because the GMs believed everything was still "working as designed" is laughable.

Comment by RItalynn

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:47:37 -0600

Stiiiiiiil no fix to stonetalon and the broken breadcrums if desolace/barrens have already been completed.

Comment by Sas148

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:51:17 -0600

Our guild, a US Realm just had our Rank 2 reverted back to Rank 1.

We're VERY angry about it.

Comment by McPwned

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:58:11 -0600

I'm still waiting on a fix to Inscription so that it's actually possible to level to 525.

Comment by rofla

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:02:45 -0600

RIP, School of Peacebloom

Comment by xathar

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:09:06 -0600

No fix for The Battle of Thandol Span. :(

Comment by RyokoLam

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:27:11 -0600

Keep on fixing those, when I get into game, things will be alittle smoother lol

Comment by Cybersoft

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:38:19 -0600

*sigh* Worgens are still stuck in limbo....

Comment by LordAnthrax74

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:57:45 -0600

Still no fix on the broken Hellfire Peninsula quest achievement, either.

Comment by Nukedoom

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:10:06 -0600

Aww...I'm missing out on all the expansion release bugs. I love messin' with playas.

Comment by nimuwe

on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:33:22 -0600

don't get angry....get informed!

Thyvene said (blue post)Unfortunately, due to an error, some guilds have been able to gain more experience in the first few hours of Cataclysm than was initially intended. Your guild is one of those affected and as a result, has had the guild rank moved back to level 1. This has been done to all guilds that had this issue.

The reason for this is that guild experience has been intentionally capped at a certain amount a day. Tomorrow you will once again be able to gain experience as normal.

We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused you and your guild. The issue should now be fixed so this will not be a recurring issue.

Comment by ArgentSun

I see quite a few of you are experiencing bugs that have not been fixed yet. I have two things to tell you:

When Patch 4.0.3 came out, Blizzard released something like 4 batches of hotfixes over the course of maybe 2 weeks. They are working hard and fast to fix stuff.

Reporting those bugs somewhere on the shiny new official forums may be helpful :)

Comment by Sas148

on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:57:17 -0600

don't get angry....get informed!

Thyvene said (blue post)Unfortunately, due to an error, some guilds have been able to gain more experience in the first few hours of Cataclysm than was initially intended. Your guild is one of those affected and as a result, has had the guild rank moved back to level 1. This has been done to all guilds that had this issue.

The reason for this is that guild experience has been intentionally capped at a certain amount a day. Tomorrow you will once again be able to gain experience as normal.

We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused you and your guild. The issue should now be fixed so this will not be a recurring issue.

It also stated that was on the EU Realms and that US was unaffected. So why would a US realm be adjusted?

Point is... they released at midnight, we did our full daily limit, then @ 3am server (after reset), we did another daily limit and they felt that wasn't fair I guess so they took the day they considered to be "extra" away.

We're dealing with it, but not happy about it.

Comment by voltmir

on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:21:55 -0600

Our guild, a US Realm just had our Rank 2 reverted back to Rank 1.

We're VERY angry about it.

The reason why Blizzard felt that the guild rep you earned (I think) is because,

A) They are trying to keep it balanced between small guilds (i.e. less than 30) and larger guilds (50+)

and B) they want everyone to have a chance. Just cause you and others of your guild got on at midnight and did those quests doesn't mean you gotta QQ about it. Others were unable to get on at midnight for various reasons, work the next day, kids, family, and any other possible real life issue.

Comment by Corvak

on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:36:27 -0600

What it was is - it wasnt intended that guilds should be able to get credit for December 6th. (Which they did if the guild zerged the servers after midnight, since the server resets most of its daily timers at 3AM)

Basically, it was an oversight they didn't account for in time. Kinda annoying for powergaming guilds who want to rush content, but c'est la vie. It won't really matter much in the end, the guilds who are rushing content and capping every day will rank up faster. Or like my own guild, will cap every day through sheer weight of numbers.

(In the end all you end up missing out on, is one day of being rank 25 and having the "rez everyone" perk.)

I think we all have to deal with stuff during any expansion. I'm not happy about losing the portals, since it means all my little alts have to wait for boats now. (except the Mage)

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